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Description

Choosing the right capital structure for your business is essential not only for growth, but also for survival. The nature of your business, stage of maturity and financial position are some factors that can influence your decision to choose between equity financing, venture debt, long-term debt or working capital financing.

A key challenge that any business owner deals with daily is the management of working capital. Structures, cash flows, existing debts and shifting revenues often add complexity for decision makers. Understanding the types of working capital financing and their respective benefits is often challenging and compounds when one has to also optimise working capital finance for each company’s unique needs.

Join us at this seminar to discover:

Types of working capital financing and their advantages

How to choose between working capital financing versus other mid to long-term financing options

How to optimise working capital finance for maximum growth

Best practices for working capital management

How to leverage cloud accounting to maintain your accounts and keep your business in check

Programme:

2:00pm: Welcome and introduction2:15pm: Financing and working capital management 2:45pm: How a Xero-certified professional can help your business grow3:15pm: Q&A3:45pm: Refreshments and networking4:30pm: End of programme

Speakers:

Sylvia Loh (Associate Director, AccountServe)

Sylvia has years of experience in various consumer and commercial banking roles in the banking industry and specialised in extending financing solutions to help SMEs across different industries to meet their working capital, trade and special project finance requirements. She holds a Master of Professional Accounting degree from Murdoch University, Australia.

Rakesh Bhatia (Chair, Executive Committee, Finaxar)

Rakesh was with HSBC for 26 years, culminating his tenure there as its Head of Global Trade & Receivables Finance (GTRF). HSBC is the largest trade based bank in the world, processing more than US$1m worth of trade every minute. Prior to this, he was HSBC’s CEO in Indonesia and before that, HSBC’s Strategy Head of Asia Pacific Commercial Banking. He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and attended both Harvard's and Duke’s Business Strategy Programs.

Vihang Patel (Co-Founder, Director, Finaxar)

Vihang is an entrepreneur, building startups around Big Data, Cloud and Mobile. He is an Operating Advisor at Monk’s Hill Ventures and was most recently the CTO of Dragon Wealth. Prior to that, he was driving technology at Crayon Data. He earlier founded Avagam which was acquired by Crayon Data, and at the beginning of his journey was a risk consultant for Deloitte working across 2 continents and 5 cities. Vihang earned a B.S. (Hons) and M.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Dr. Tan Sian Wee (Co-Founder, Director, Finaxar)

Sian was an early investor and pioneer of touch feedback across networks for Immersion (NASDAQ: IMMR) and holds 10 patents. Immersion’s technology is today felt through major game controllers, automotive, medical and mobile systems. He developed the spinout program for Europe’s largest contract research organization the Fraunhofer Society, and advised Primesense, makers of Microsoft’s Kinect. He later founded and was CEO of Thermagine, providers of advanced energy storage solutions. Sian holds a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Bristol, a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

Organisers:

ABOUT ACCOUNTSERVEAccountServe specialises in meeting basic to complex accounting and accounting-related requirements of businesses. Its scope ranges from value-added bookkeeping to innovative services such as SWAT Accounting and Business Crisis Management.

AccountServe is a company under the Stone Forest group, a leading accounting and business advisory group that focuses on growing businesses. Professional financial, business advisory and IT expertise is within our easy access internally, giving us the edge over others in being your accounting partner. On the international platform, as a member of the RSM network, we are able to assist our clients with their cross-border requirements efficiently.

ABOUT FINAXARFinaxar is a state-of-the-art technology company that provides innovative trade and supply chain financing solutions. Our team comprises seasoned veterans from banking, supply chain management, data science and technology with proven track records. We are backed by Tier-1 venture capital, funds and family offices from Singapore, USA and Europe. Our solutions are built from scratch by people that understand small- and medium businesses' financing challenges and want to build solutions to profoundly improve small businesses’ capital financing to such a point that they won’t go back to the old way of working.